[jasonl]

Built by Mark from DP

www.carpetcleaners-bournemouth.co.uk

[derek west]

like the lay out, like the wording but not enough (actually none at all) personal pictures of you and your equipment, (oo er misses)

thats just my taste though.

[Mike Halliday]

I think the odour control page is too technical. dumb it down as bit so regular people can understand it

you need a better picture of yourself. all the other picture are fine, how do viewers know its not you, and would they even care : :

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Step 6 on home page has 'scotchguard' spelt wrong, I recognise some of that text looks great to me

Shaun

[happy mondays]

Nice looking site in firefox ie8 etc, but, always a but with me 

This is how some one would see it if they used ie6 as their browser....

Some things can be done to make it look right, Mark will be able to sort it out, browsers are a pain for a web designer, if it looks ok in ie6 and firefox its normally ok in all others, current stats say that around 10% of people still use ie6  So its well worth making it look right for them. Try it and see what yours looks like   http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Paul have you ever thought of doing web design? you're very thorough and knowledgeable on it.

Shaun

[jasonl]

Thanks for the comments . I was wanting the Phone mumbers bigger /on every page , is this good to do ?

[happy mondays]

Paul have you ever thought of doing web design? you're very thorough and knowledgeable on it.

Shaun

  if I knew as much about carpet cleaning as I do about web design I'd be a very good carpet cleaner, used to do it shaun many years ago, wish I'd have gone down that business route in some ways, trying to get back into it again, but its having the time to learn and tinker with all the new stuff when trying to run a cleaning business, its not old school html with loads of code and tables that I learnt anymore, its divs and plenty of css.  

[pro-clean]

Very Imformative , nice out lay but as above needs pics

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Regarding the telephone number being bigger I think it depends on how you want them to contact you, if you don't want to stop to answer your phone then push them toward form submission.

Shaun

[Stu.Clem]

Site looks well glossy - nice one cyril - main thing for me is lack of visible fone number without leaving homepage.  The pics in general look so perfect they might be a tad unbeleivable? and the shot of cleaning mousse bottle also looks a bit CD tho dont know whether you linked to them or not?? Overall a very pro looking site and so should inspire confidence and credibilty from the custys.  My opinions not meant to be derogatory just my initial thoughts - know where u comin from as just had mine updated and its quite a rollercoaster wondering whats right n wrong - good luck and best wishes

Stu

[happy mondays]

I'd be tempted just to get Mark to add it to the logo, something like this:

[jasonl]

I just noticed the logo is the wrong version ,, the fire is blue and the water is red!

[Daria Taylor]

Other than those few points which others have picked up it's a lovely site, i'm actually quiet surprised that it was built by Mark.

Regards
dash t

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Dash you sound surprised are Mark's sites not your taste? (not a leading question) I see sites and think 'don't like that' the trouble is with the carpet cleaning community on line we all buy the same and anything different can be frowned upon.

Shaun

[jasonl]

Well it has been up a few days ,and I have got the money and time I put into it back already.

Hope to have several more by the end of summer.

[ianharper]

Jason

looks good. remember that anything someone else says about you holds more weight that you saying it. your testimonials are lost in the page

respect

Ian Harper

[Paul W Jones]

On your EOT cleaning page the word 'tenancy' is spelled three different ways; tennency, tenacy, tennacy.  Under your logo on your homepage Bournemouth is spelled incorrectly.  Just small things but that's what our customers are looking for....attention to detail.

[Daria Taylor]

Dash you sound surprised are Mark's sites not your taste? (not a leading question) I see sites and think 'don't like that' the trouble is with the carpet cleaning community on line we all buy the same and anything different can be frowned upon.

Shaun

Shaun yes I cannot say that I'm a big fan of Marks website, nothing personal as regards to him because he obviously is a very nice person and offers people value for money.

However what i dont like is everybodies website being almost identical. I'm not saying my website is perfect is not, as is not yet complete and i'm still working on it now. Yet i can proudly say that is down to my efforts, it googles well exactly for what i want , plus is unique.

the major issue in cleaning industry is almost everysite you go on is same old same old thing, henry hoover, women with mops etc  with carpet cleanings is very much same, gallery of before and after, pictures of equipment etc etc, i think you get the point.

When you go on builders websites, they all do the same but their websites range in the designs, same for other trades, online shops are not all the same etc, but in our industry most of them are. I think it must be down to the people in our industry to whom website is just a website.

We get 90% of business from our website, it's a face of our company not just a box with few words in it and pictures to show how good we are.

Anyways that's just my personal opinion and i think i shouldn't be saying all this as I will get alot of stick now.

Regards
dash t

[Adam P]

i agree with dash, though i would as i disagree with the pay little for someone to use an automated template builder to do any of the web design work, then from that you get a site that luckily gets ok results as there is not much competition, plus you're linked from each other site that has been created by mark, which is against googles rules so when they realise this they'll punish the site owner and each one that links to them.

it's kind of like when you see these sites,

http://www.cleaningguildford.co.uk/
http://www.commercialcleanersguildford.co.uk/
http://www.contractcleaningservicesguildford.com/
http://www.officecleaningguildford.co.uk/
http://www.ascotletcleaning.co.uk/
http://www.cleaningservicesguildford.com/

gets a bit samey and you start to realise little work has gone into those sites to make them unique for the business. e.g. although jason's site is ok, it has little reason to be a carpet cleaners site, and a carpet cleaner that specialises in fire and flood restoration.


imo ways to improve the site design would be first to remove the guestsonline widget. was that mark's latest find or your choice? imo a customer doesn't want to see that. it adds nothing to the users experience and is typically found on amateurs websites (not my opinion). others may have an opinion and think it works well which is fair enough, just in my experience you see this useless rubbish all the time and think was someone paid to put that there?

what's the login/register do for the customer? it's in a very important part of the page (could be replaced with your phone number), which it would need to be on sites like facebook, but does it add anything of value to the visitor? if it does it's not very clear that it does.

if you disable images the header links go almost invisible. something to think about for future as more and more people are using the internet on their phone and often a lot don't load images to cut down on loading times.

perhaps a little small detail but the font used for the contact numbers isn't very readable as at the moment some parts are wide, then others are very thin. something a little more round or one that at least uses a similar width for all parts of the character would be better


 re-check spelling over and over and copy/paste each block of text into word so no spelling mistakes as that'll show a lot of mistakes if there is any